Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Approach (Relational Perspectives Book Series, V. 5) - Hardcover

Slochower, Joyce Anne; Slochower, Joyce A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0881632007 ISBN 13: 9780881632002

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

This work addresses holding in a variety of clinical contexts and focuses especially on holding processes in relation to issues of dependence, self-involvement, and hate.

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Review

"Dr. Slochower has creatively expanded and deepened Winnicott's concept of holding to include a variety of difficult relational contexts -- contexts in which the patient needs the analyst to struggle to contain and silently process his or her subjectivity. Holding and Psychoanalysis is a first-rate integration of theory and practice."

- Lawrence Epstein, Ph.D., Training Analyst, William Alanson White Institute

"Holding, a concept long in the background of clinical work, is elevated by Dr. Slochower to an impressive foreground position. She carefully delineates the complexity of the holding construct in a wide variety of difficult clinical situations, always attending, as well, to the analyst's subjective experience during interludes of holding. The ubiquity and power of the holding theme are deepened by her relational perspective, which emphasizes the patient's and analyst's interrelated struggles around holding issues in the context of an evolving collaborative therapeutic proc

About the Author

Joyce Anne Slochower, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, and Clinical Professor, Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, New York University. She is a faculty member of the Object Relations Institute and supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0881632007
• ISBN 13: 9780881632002
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204